Naomi Mitchison:

An Inventory of Her Collection at the Harry Ransom Center

Creator:

Mitchison, Naomi, 1897-1999

Title:

Naomi Mitchison Collection

Dates:

1908-1990, undated

Extent:

17 boxes (7.14 linear feet)

Abstract:

Contains chiefly manuscript works by the Scottish novelist, poet, activist, and feminist
Naomi Mitchison. Manuscripts for Black Sparta, The Corn King and the Spring Queen, To the Chapel Perilous, and We Have Been Warned are present, along with numerous writings about Africa. Correspondents include Theodore
Dreiser, George Orwell, Marie Stopes, Evelyn Waugh, Rebecca West, and others.

Joan Sibley and Apryl Voskamp, 2015
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for
information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations
commonly used in descriptions.